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George Eliot: Interdisciplinary Essays

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Transdisciplinary approach opens up fresh perspectives and avenues of enquiry into Eliot's work Features essays by scholars with established records in Eliot studies, in addition to new scholarship by emerging scholars Addresses natural history, mythology, social reform, the world of nature, gender studies, representations of Eliot’s writing in periodicals, poetry, international translation, materialist theory, and Eliot’s own research and experience of Italy and its history

Author(s): Jean Arnold, Lila Marz Harper
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2019

Language: English
Pages: 330

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv
Introduction (Jean Arnold, Lila Marz Harper, Thomas Pinney)....Pages 1-15
Front Matter ....Pages 17-17
“A Thousand Tit-Bits”: George Eliot and the New Journalism (Alexis Easley)....Pages 19-40
George Eliot’s Literary Legacy: Poetic Perception and Self-Fashioning in the 1870s (Wendy S. Williams)....Pages 41-59
Front Matter ....Pages 61-61
George Eliot as “Worthy Scholar”: Note Taking and the Composition of Romola (Andrew Thompson)....Pages 63-95
Egyptian Mythology in Eliot’s Major Works (Molly Youngkin)....Pages 97-115
Front Matter ....Pages 117-117
Organic Realism in Middlemarch (Jean Arnold)....Pages 119-137
“These Things Are a Parable”: Natural History Metaphors and Audience in Felix Holt (1866) (Lila Marz Harper)....Pages 139-164
Handling George Eliot’s Fiction (Peter J. Capuano)....Pages 165-193
Front Matter ....Pages 195-195
“It Was All over with Wildfire”: Horse Accidents in George Eliot’s Fiction (Nancy Henry)....Pages 197-211
The Functions of Dogs in George Eliot’s Fiction (Sara Håkansson)....Pages 213-229
The Ambivalence of Water in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (1860) (Odile Boucher-Rivalain)....Pages 231-243
Front Matter ....Pages 245-245
Hints of Same-Sex Attraction and Transgender Traits in George Eliot’s Characters (Constance M. Fulmer)....Pages 247-265
“Upright Realism”: The Influence of George Eliot on Polish Literature (Aleksandra Budrewicz)....Pages 267-297
Back Matter ....Pages 299-330